116 FLORICULTUE.-r I'OTICES., . . 
of them have not been throwing up the £awering stems, and exhibiting their deh- | 
cate blossoms of a white colour, the lip ■ iv>]y d with red, and banded with the same ' 
colour in the inside, while the margin tlie base lias a deep red fringe, much 
longer than in any species I have ever seen." The pseudo-bulbs are of the usual 
description ; and the flower-scape rises to the height of two feet, bearing from 
twenty to thirty of its curious blossoms. Bot. Mag. 3796. 
Odontogl^ssum maculatum. a very handsome orchidaceous plant, imported 
from Mexico, by G. Barker, Esq., and recently flowered by that gentleman. " It is 
one of the prettiest of the family, because of its large two-coloured spotted flowers 
and drooping habit, and seems to have much the manner of growth and constitution 
of an Oncidium." The pseudo-bulbs are short, with only one leaf on the apex, 
but several others clasping their base. The flowers are borne in pendulous 
racemes. Deep brown is the colour of the interior of the sepals, and they are 
green externally : the petals and lip are yellow, mottled with reddish brown. It 
will doubtless thrive best on a log of wood. Bot. Reg. 30. 
Verbascum tauricum. Decidedly the most ornamental species of Verbascum 
with which we are acquainted ; not only for the rich colours of its blossoms, but 
for its noble habit and foliage. Sir W. J. Hooker will not positively assert that it 
is a genuine species, but it has every character of such. It is supposed to have 
been sent from the German gardens, to Dr. Graham, of the Edinburgh Botanic 
Garden, where it bloomed in the open border in August 1839. The flowers 
are very abundant, large, of a brilliant purple, which merges into a much darker 
hue towards the middle, and below which, again, there is a pretty yellow ring. It 
is, probably, a biennial, and of the most simple culture. Bot. Mag. 3799. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL 
SUBURBAN NURSERIES. 
Aristolochia ciliare. a plant of this singular new species, received by 
Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place, from the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, and 
believed to have been imported from Brazil, is blooming in great profusion at the 
nursery of the above gentlemen. It is not more than three feet high, seems 
to require little support, has very regular and handsome foliage, and is wonderfully 
prolific of flowers. These last are small, produced singly on slightly drooping pedun- 
cles, with an erect tube or pouch of a pale green colour, which expands into a lip of 
dark brown, rather checkered with green, and surrounded by a conspicuous fringe 
of large long hairs, each with a nearly globular gland at its summit. The odour of 
the blossoms, though disagreeable, does not diffuse itself through the atmosphere, 
and hence it is not detected unless sought. It appears to be a sufiruticose plant, 
with a partial tendency to climb, and demanding the temperature of a stove. The 
abundance, as well as the curious lip, of the flowers render it interesting. 
